The Power of Your Voice: Why I asked Tanya Birri to come to WomenDorf
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It was late 2024, I was working through my life story for a talk at WomensHub, and so I remembered this moment:
Me and my sister sitting at the dinner table in our home in Emmental, bored to death, not unusual in the 90s growing up without a television 😉.
We started making noises with our voices, and in the end we were singing loud and I guess straight from our hearts. Our voices and in synchronicity. We felt so present, happy and alive.
Despite the simplicity and perceived meaninglessness of this moment how important it actually was. I felt how I was whole right there. Full of life and powerful in my presence and the way I used my voice.
I decided to sing along this talk on stage in 2025. This was especially courageous, as I believed that I can’t sing and my voice on videos would still freak me out from time to time.
I took a handful of singing lessons and asked the organizer if it’s okay to sing a song, to make a point about authenticity. They said «great idea» 🤭. Only on the day itself did I realize there was an actual singer-songwriter on the program: Tanya Birri. Can you imagine? My inner judge freaked out. The ease I felt before suddenly was a slippery nothingness 🤯.
Tanya was so kind.
«Of course you will sing on stage», she said, «experience or no experience». For her it was about expressing oneself first, technique second. So I did. I got so much courage and power from this experience, to raise «and step into» my voice, despite my judge, an experience I took far beyond singing.
That same day Tanya guided us through her powerful song and lyrics «The Woman in Me» and the room was lit up with a tender and powerful energy. Many tears were released.
A year later another women’s association came together, Tanya was there again. We were so moved. And yes that’s the picture above with the note to myself:
Ask Tanya to come to Womännedorf 💛 (now: WomenDorf)
And so Tanya Birri and WomenDorf came together to experience the POWER OF YOUR VOICE on September 25 in Uetikon am See.
While we sing together, this is not about singing, it’s about the power within you and your pathway to it.
Let’s raise our voices, let’s step into our power — together.
Big hug
Pia